World history is a court of judgment.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history

To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.

Truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis which reconciles the two.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.

What history teaches us is that neither nations nor governments ever learn anything from it.

I have the courage to be mistaken.

All education is the art of making men ethical (sittlich), of transforming the old Adam into the new Adam.

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

Africa has no history and did not contribute to anything that mankind enjoyed.

I am responsible for my own existence and happiness.

If I were a bean, ... I wouldn't sulk all day long.

All things come to him who waits- provided he knows what he is waiting for.

Donald Trump is a champion for legal immigrants.

In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer. He was good to the end.'

All people are born creative. And there's nobody who's helpless, nobody.

[I like] Victor Jara and the music of Chile, and the social movement in Chile.

He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own destiny.

It is a vast, and pervasive, cognitive mistake to assume that people who agree with you (or disagree) do so on the same criteria that you care about.

It's almost as if this is the fundamental procedure in modern society: duplication and recycling.